Saturday, February 25, 2012

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals to Open for President Obama in VERMONT

President
Barack Obama is moving the location of his Vermont visit to accommodate more people, and
adding a headline local musical act to the bill. Sources say the March 30 the event, originally scheduled for the
Sheraton Hotel and ConferenceCenter on Williston Road, SOLD OUT too fast. Organizers began to search for a larger location.

Grace Potter

The president's re-election campaign also says singer and
songwriter Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, will be performing at the
event.

Tickets for
the event range in price from $44 students and grassroots activists to $7,500 for
a photo opportunity with the president.

Obama, visited Vermont in 2006 (when he was a U.S. Senator from Illinois) at a rally in the Ira Allen Chapel on the UVM campus. That event included politicians Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch and filled to beyond
overflowing.